What Pi Looks Like To 4 Million Decimal Places, As Pixel Art

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New York designers TWO-N honor record-breaking calculations of Pi by representing a small subset of the number’s decimal digits as pixels. (Yes, 4 million is a small subset.) Last year, a Japanese mathematician and a U.S. grad student smashed the world record for calculating the value of Pi. After a manic 371 days of computing, Shigeru Kondo and Alexander Yee reached 10 trillion decimal places, doubling the previous record (which Kondo set the year before). To give you a sense of how big that is: It would take an average person 158,000 years to recite every last digit. more...